Our Preferred Caterer List

In its 31st year of operation, The Catering Company provides full-service custom catering for a wide variety of corporate, individual and university-related events within the Triangle and across the state.

Dedicated to excellence in food quality, preparation and presentation, and renowned for imaginative décor, we cater functions both small and large. Whether you are planning a buffet, seated dinner, cocktail party, fundraiser or other special event, our team of international chefs and event planners can offer you innovative cuisine that’s tailored to your palate, ideal for the season and perfect for the chosen theme of your event.

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We are excited to bring you an Asian street fare food truck specializing in Chinese dumplings. After years of dumpling studies through extensive tasting, pleating, and learning secret family recipes, we have developed a menu that we think you’ll love.

The Chirba Chirba Dumpling Story | Once upon a time, there were 4 friends who loved to make and eat dumplings. After many trips to foreign lands where much delicious street food was discovered (and eaten), the 4 friends decided to bring their favorite dumplings to the streets to share with all from a food truck. Late night dumpling pleating parties have turned into inventive taste-testing and dumpling folding sessions at The Cookery.

Whether you need a caterer for a formal dinner party, causal get-together, corporate luncheon, cocktail reception or a sit-down wedding, Donovan’s Dish, A Catering Company can handle all of the particulars to ensure that your event is truly distinctive and delicious! Our expert team can personalize any menu to suit your needs and fit your budget. We also offer full service floral design and event coordination. Delicious food, gorgeous presentations, uncompromised service; that is what Donovan's Dish, a Catering Company is serving up to the Triangle.

Durham Catering Company is a full service caterer with indissoluble ties to its community. Specializing in off-premise events, our company is also committed to environmental improvement. We express that by using the freshest possible local and seasonal ingredients found in North Carolina, making it possible for our clients to “green” their events with ease, and reducing our carbon footprint as a company.

Committed to helping our clients realize the vision they have for their special event or party, we pride ourselves on the relationships that we build and the services that we render. With your special needs and budget in mind, we will make you an integral part of the planning process.

We introduce new and exciting dishes to the region. One client, and thousands of guests, at a time. Choreographed flavors, shapes, colors and textures shape every Mitchell's menu. In fact, endless consideration goes into creating each and every one. As a rule, our cuisine is inspired by the finest ingredients and fresh picked produce.

Whatever the budget and whatever form of dining style you are leaning toward, your Event Consultant will be there to guide you through many attractive and interesting ways to entertain. Always giving your guests something to talk about.

Sage and Swift is a small, family run business in Durham, NC. Professionally trained chef Amy Tornquist started the company in 1993 after studying and working in Paris for 3 years. She and her husband, Jeremy Kerman, run the business today and their daughter Lizzie is often in the office “cooking” with her toy pots. Amy’s mother Elizabeth helps out in the office and often meets with clients. Our commitment to delighting clients is at the core of everything we do. Our menus reflect an exciting combination of the traditional and the new. We have prepared every kind of food imaginable, from light vegetarian hors d’oeuvres to rich desserts, from old-fashioned southern picnic dishes to elaborate multi-course French dinners. We want every dish to be exceptional.

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We are a small team of cooks who are as passionate about food as you are. We bring the spirit of surprise and delight from our pop-up dinners to each of our private events -- the food is whimsical, but approachable; inspired, yet deeply personal. For us, each menu highlights the best ingredients sourced from our network of around 25 local farms resulting in over 90% of our food costs going back into the local food system.

Throughout the process, you will be working directly with our executive chef, from crafting a totally personalized menu based on the produce that will be in season to overseeing the event itself. And we never commit to more than one event per day, so you always have our undivided attention.

What’s most important to us is creating truly unique experiences marked by uncommonly delicious food that tells your story.

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Sympathy for the Deli is a mobile deli serving sandwiches made with locally-sourced, sustainable meats, all hand-cured, roasted, and smoked in Durham, NC by SFTD. All of our deli meats derive from local, organic farms, and then are specially hand-cured, smoked, and roasted by Sympathy for the Deli. From our pastrami to roast beef to smoked turkey to herb and pepper bacon – if it’s meat, we made it! Showcasing our specialty, can’t-find-this-anywhere-else meats with quality produce and freshly-made condiments, all served on local Guglhupf bread, we are proud to both support and be a part of the unique local food scene in the Triangle!

Desserts and Finger Food

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At Details, we make custom wedding and special event cakes with your input. Your special event cake will start with a design meeting where we get your feedback and create from there.

Everything at Details is scratch made, even the marshmallow fondant! We make our own marshmallow fondant in small batches so that it tastes amazing. All our cakes, ganches, and fillings are scratch made with only the best ingredients.

We offer gluten free, vegan, lactose free, and nut free cake options! Call or send us an e-mail to set up a design appointment.

Monuts is a busy bakery and cafe located in Downtown Durham. Started as a donut stand operating off a tricycle near the Durham Farmer's Market, Monuts has grown into a counter-service restaurant with a full menu of sandwiches on house-made bagels and biscuits, soups, salads, other brunch fare, and of course, donuts. Monuts takes an updated approach to the American breakfast and lunch, pairing bold ethnic flavors with seasonal and local ingredients. Everything we sell is made from scratch, by-hand, and to order with a focus on our ever-changing daily specials.

Monuts is available for catering meetings, parties, and other special events. Whether it be a few dozen donuts and bagels for your next office meeting, sandwiches for a baby shower or picnic, or a tower of custom-flavored mini-donuts for your wedding, we can do it all. For more info, send us an email at catering@monutsdonuts.com.

We make incredible ice cream by hand in downtown Durham, NC.Our shop serves ice cream 7 days a week, along with coffee and other desserts. Or get ice cream by finding our bus!

Request the Bus We bring the party to you and serve (outdoors) from our mini school bus! We can cater your event, where you or your organization pick up the tab for all your guests’ ice cream. We can also sell ice cream directly to guests at select public or private events.

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On the porch of a piedmont farmhouse in North Carolina. That's where it all started, beneath the watch of Granny's two black wooden roosters. In the southern summers my family would gather on Sundays for a day of rest and re-connection. And ice cream. Neighbors would come over to share bounty from their garden for the next batch and sit a spell. We would sit for hours talking, laughing, story-swapping and painfully yet lovingly taking turns on that ole rock salt machine. We kids lived for that exact moment of approval when the slurry turned to scoops, our arms no longer fit for the churning, and the reward for our deeds became the epitome of happiness.

Granny's house is no longer there, and the rock salt machine has too much rust. But the love, intrigue, and passion for ice cream has bloomed over the years, just like that hand-churned batch of fresh peaches and cream. Our awareness and appreciation for seasonal harvests and skilled purveyors is a nod to our shared history. The new neighbors are local farmers, brewers, bakers, chocolate makers, tea merchants, and food artisans. We invite you come to our porch and experience all that North Carolina has to offer. And by all means, sit a while.